I ve always been a fan of asian phones from time immemorial though i strongly feel the likes of HTC and Samsung is ripping us off.

Most times i go for unknown brands that offer same quality as the higher end asian phones.

I got a Lenovo A820 as far back as early 2013. Fast forward to 2015, am still rocking the phone and have no course to regret.

So my wife's phone started misbehaving, i started looking for an android phone that has 2G ram and android 5 as OS.

My search led me straight to MEIZU M2 Note. I had to preorder sometimes in June and the phone arrived like 2weeks ago and i would love to share my experience with the phone so far.

Pls go on

I love meizu too. Pls I will like to know the store you ordered it. Also, I will like you share your unbiased review. I am ordering for it this week. Thank you, kindly

The phone came in a little cute box with only space for charger as can be seen in the pix

No ear phone came with it, well a phone with its spec at just about 160-170 USD, i think it can be forgiven

The images are not taking time to load, but i would go ahead with the review anyway

The home screen, typical android 5. No special drawer for apps. The native flyme OS apps are on the home page. When you swpie left you would see other flyme apps packed in a folder called tools

The phone came with a pre installed android 5.1 OS.

The flyme OS gives one an oportunity to ugrade whenever a new android update is available.

A major advantage compared with other notable android phones.

Its highly customized flymeOS gives you the opportunity to be upto date

Specs

NETWORK
Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE

LAUNCH
Announced 2015, June
Status Available. Released 2015, June


BODY
Dimensions 150.9 x 75.2 x 8.7 mm (5.94 x 2.96 x 0.34 in)


Weight 149 g (5.26 oz)

SIM Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

DISPLAY
Type IGZO capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 5.5 inches (~72.8% screen-to-body ratio)

Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels (~403 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes


PLATFORM
OS Android OS, v5.0 (Lollipop)


Chipset Mediatek MT6753
CPU Octa-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-T720MP3

MEMORY
Card slot microSD, up to 128 GB (uses SIM 2 slot)


Internal 16/32 GB, 2 GB RAM


CAMERA
Primary 13 MP, 4208 x 3120 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash
Features 1/3.06'' sensor size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama

Video 1080p, 1080p@30fps
Secondary 5 MP, 1080p


SOUND
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes


COMMS
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot

Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP, LE
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
Radio No
USB microUSB v2.0, USB Host


FEATURES
Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser HTML5
Java No
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player
- MP4/H.264 player
- Document editor
- Photo/video editor


BATTERY
Non-removable 3100 mAh battery
Stand-by
Talk time
MISC


Colors Gray, White, Blue, Pink

thespokenword:
I love meizu too. Pls I will like to know the store you ordered it. Also, I will like you share your unbiased review. I am ordering for it this week. Thank you, kindly

Go to aliexpress and search for the Meizu M2, copy the link and send it to @Bizbloke, he will help you order for the phone to Lagos... he's trusted and he provides the best customer service

https://www.nairaland.com/1313560/specuit-cargo-pre-order-china-usa

My last post is for all the tech guys, i will just talk about the necessary things an average Nigerian needs

The battery is not removeable.

As a matter of fact, the back cant be remove.

The battery can last you for at least a day with active browsing.

I actually browse alot , so i took the phone to work and used it all through. By the time i was grtting home it had a solid 61% remaining.

However, i didnt try using its 4g to browse (both sims are 4g enabled) as i used data from my visaphone blackberry

As for battery, the phone is okay

You have the option to choose between perfomance, balanced or.power saving mode

Performance.mode actives all the cores of the phone

I ve only tried balanced mode though and it serves me quite well

I actually dont feel like handing over the phone to its original owner

Storage

The phone has an intenal storagr of 16gb

For space lovers ypu could go for the 32gb variant.

About only 10g was free.

FlymeOs has lots of customized apps in the phone

After installing all the necessary apps i still had a spacr of 9gb to play with.

I would advise any one using this phone to make use of any cloud accouby to help save space taken by pictures and othet media.

Am currently using google photos as her pictures have already been backed up to google photos in her s4 and i dont havr any issur with it. Dropbox is also okay

Where did u buy it from

The phone has a 13mp anf 5mp back and front camera

For selfie lovers, 5mp is very decent

Thr camera is very sharp and has lots a effizzy for all the picture freaks

Media Players

The native video and Music player is very decent. It has lots of options as you would see in the pictures

The most interesting part of the video is that you can still be watching your favourite video and be doing whatever you want to do with the phone

The video size will be minimized and you can drag it anywhere on the screen and be doing whatever you are doing

If you look carefully in the first picture, you will see a small screen up with Flavour's Gollibe, playing. You can navigate to any app.of.your choice and the video wont.be affected

Nice review, please continue!!

Security

The phone has an in built security which is not only against virus but it also can clean junk, cache, save power etc

This security feature is one of the selling point of Meizu's flyme Os

very nice phone but not using dual sim and memory card at the same time ,is what stop me from getting it,waiting for doogee s6000

But why are you always using Nice One! Plus Ucweb icon for every screenshot?

Chimezie250:
very nice phone but not using dual sim and memory card at the same time ,is what stop me from getting it,waiting for doogee s6000

I dont understand what you're saying, ds phone uses dual sim n u can either choose from d 32/16Gb variant, i dont c y u need memory card. except ur sayin odawise. N dat Dogee s6000 has a really crappy resolution, but it's cheap sha for d specs.

Mafia4life:
But why are you always using Nice One! Plus Ucweb icon for every screenshot?

lolzZz

You say Samsung and HTC are ripping us off, but i say they dont use cheap parts (just take a look at the CPU and clock speed of the meizu for example), and they also spend a lot on R&D and marketing. Please don't expect a Lamborghini to cost the same as a toyota.

jworos:
I dont understand what you're saying, ds phone uses dual sim n u can either choose from d 32/16Gb variant, i dont c y u need memory card. except ur sayin odawise. N dat Dogee s6000 has a really crappy resolution, but it's cheap sha for d specs.

I mean you can't use both sim slot and memory card at the same time ,either you use two sim at same time and leave memory card or use one sim card and memory card ,it uses one micro sim and a nano sim,so you can either use that nano sim slot for sim card or memory card, the prize different is not much,doogee s6000 is 140$ while meizu m2 note is 149$ from gearbest.com,everbuying.com,the only issue with doogee s6000 is lack of fhd

Chimezie250:
I mean you can't use both sim slot and memory card at the same time ,either you use two sim at same time and leave memory card or use one sim card and memory card ,it uses one micro sim and a nano sim,so you can either use that nano sim slot for sim card or memory card, the prize different is not much,doogee s6000 is 140$ while meizu m2 note is 149$ from gearbest.com,everbuying.com,the only issue with doogee s6000 is lack of fhd

now i get ur drift, to me sha 16Gb isn't bad for storage, d dogee s6000 is pretty cool, na just d screen resolution spoil am.

badbros:
nice review, I have been on dis device spec for weeks, I noticed there was no back button unlike d m1 note which has onscreen navi back button, how does it work

the Mback button serves it well

debeo:
I ve always been a fan of asian phones from time immemorial though i strongly feel the likes of HTC and Samsung is ripping us off.

Most times i go for unknown brands that offer same quality as the higher end asian phones.

I got a Lenovo A820 as far back as early 2013. Fast forward to 2015, am still rocking the phone and have no course to regret.

So my wife's phone started misbehaving, i started looking for an android phone that has 2G ram and android 5 as OS.

My search led me straight to MEIZU M2 Note. I had to preorder sometimes in June and the phone arrived like 2weeks ago and i would love to share my experience with the phone so far.

i have been following the phone since when it was announced and am really planning in buying one.but i want to know how much will it cost me in laying my hands on it

I love your baby more

I mean the fourth picture.

oyewolestephen:
i have been following the phone since when it was announced and am really planning in buying one.but i want to know how much will it cost me in laying my hands on it

I have clients who frequent China on business trips, i just appealed to one person to get the phone for me.

Total cost was like 35k sha, dont forget i didnt pay for shipping and i actually pre—ordered , so now the price is a little lower.

Just search for Meizu M2 on NL you would defintely see someone selling.

oyewolestephen:
the Mback button serves it well

Thr only button on hr phone also serves as back button

Also theres a virtual button on the screen which you can either use to move from one app to another or simply tap to go back.

The virtual button also can be used to navigate to notifications or home screen. Depending on what you want as it can customised to suit you

samsard:
You say Samsung and HTC are ripping us off, but i say they dont use cheap parts (just take a look at the CPU and clock speed of the meizu for example), and they also spend a lot on R& and marketing. Please don't expect a Lamborghini to cost the same as a toyota.

How many Nigerians use all the things you outlined above? Less than 1%, why should i pay so much for something i will never ever use?

Xiaomi and Meizu have flagship phones with killers cpu and speed yet, their price is significantly lower than Apple, Samsung etc

Chimezie250:
very nice phone but not using dual sim and memory card at the same time ,is what stop me from getting it,waiting for doogee s6000

With lot of cloud options, do you really need an SD card?

Since you would be only 247, SD is a mere formality.

You can also back up with your tab or labtop, if you must

fashrola:
Go to aliexpress and search for the Meizu M2, copy the link and send it to @Bizbloke, he will help you order for the phone to Lagos... he's trusted and he provides the best customer service

https://www.nairaland.com/1313560/specuit-cargo-pre-order-china-usa

Thanks for the referral & mention, bro.